Rubber-working machine.



E. B HERMAN. RUBBER WORKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV-2L 1914. I 1,173,4Q6 Patented Feb. 29,1916.

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E. B. HERMAN.

RUBBER WORKING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED uov.2z, 191.4.

1,173,426. Patented Feb.29, 1916.

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Application filed November 27, 1914:. Serial No. 874,139.;

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, EDWARD B. HERMAN,

' a citizen of the United States, residing at East Watertown, in the countyof Middle sex and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rubber-Working Machines, of which the following is a specification, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

illlS invention has reference to improvements in rubber working machines and particularly to improvements in such machines adapted to apply reinforces or strengthening layers to rubber. I

One object of this invention is to provide I means for applying to a web of material reinforce layers or pieces of a shape and size difiering from that of the web.

Another ob ect of the invention is to provide a machine through which a web or strip of rubber may be fed and having means for applying to said rubber at intervals pieces of reinforce material and for trimming the rubber.

Another object of the invention is to pro-- vide means for stretching rubber along a line and for applying pressure on said stretched I rubber to sever the same.

' Other objects of the invention will appear from the following description.

chine in front elevation. Fig. ayrepresents a plan view of a piece of rubber having one of the reinforces or linings adapted tube applied by this proved machine herein more particularly referred to.

. referred to is adapted Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

The machine hereinafter more spec1fically to apply the linings,

machine. Fig. ,5, represents a similar view of'the productof the imare usually made of textile fabric of some kind and are rubberized sufliciently to facihtate their adhesion to a sheet B of rubber,

whereby the product of the combination-1S. a

piece of textile fabric offithe desired shape 1 so called,used in the construction of rubber" .boots toa layer ofrubber. These linings A' having a; face of rubber. 'While thei'jpart A is herein referred to as afli'ning ltjisto be understoodthat such part is thus-re ferred to for convenience to identify the linmg or reinforce from the rubber-B. .It is' also to 'be understood that these parts or].

materials A and B are referred to herein without the intention thereby to restrict the invention. The parts or linings A used'mthe manufacture of, rubber bootsare,as above stated, usually of textile materi' Ito-which rubber has been applied fThese liningsA are the linings or reinforce material for the:

legs of boots and are offcon'siderablesize. Usually said linings are cut from piecesof material by dies and placed'between sheets of suitable paper or between the pages of a; book. The preparation ofvsuch-p1eces or linings above described; i i a One process heretofore employed for applying the linings A torubbe'r: has been to draw forward a web of very soft and adhesive rubber on to a table or flat surface and. smooth out said rubber; then= toapply one of the linings Ato'the rubber and smooth the same, then to cut, with shears or a knife,

the rubber around the outline of [the linin and then to pass the combined lining an rubber between pressure appliances to press the lining. and rubber together. j Such'process, in practice,' required the cooperation of A for use in this improved machme contemplates the production; thereof as several operatives and resulted in 'the waste of considerable. rubber as the pure rubber accidentally folded together will adhere and the folds cannot be separated. It is also hand" implements the fabricpr linin-g A is found that, in trimming the rubber" with cut. The principal objection toibhe process heretofore employed has been the amount of time and laboremployed therein.

In carrying my invention mtoapractice l' have found that by mechanically feeding for:

ward a web or-strip of rubber; by mechanically applying to said rubber the linings or reinforces A and by subjecting the com* bined product to pressure but a single opera: tor would be necessary and no waste of rubber would occur. I'have also found that while, in practice, it. is difficult to cut thin sheet rubber by means of a die or dies it is comparatively easy and satisfactory to cut or sever such thin rubber by stretching or pressing the same over*an edge and applying heat thereto on the line of sa1d edge whereby the stretched or pressed line of the rubber is softened orheated sufficiently to effect the separation of the portions of rubber at the sides of said edge. a y

In the drawings I have shown this invention as embodied in a machine having the side frames 5 and 6 secured together in any suitable manner and having bearings in which is journaled the main shaft 7 having the cylinder 8, the sprockets 9 and 10, and' ed e.

, procket 9 has the chain which drives the sprocket 18 of the shaft 17 journaled at the upper portion of frame 6 and having the gear 16 which meshes with the pinion 19 1 of the brush roll shaft 20, having the brush 21, and with the pinion 22 of the heater roll shaft 23 which latter has the sprocket 24. This heater roll shaft is journaled in spring pressed blocks slidably adjustable in guides of the frames 5 and 6 to permit the heater roll 25 of said shaft 23 to yield, B01125 is preferably tubular to receive the gas burner pipe 26 by means bf:which fuel is supplled to heat sa1d roll 25 and the, periphery of'this roll 25 is cleaned? by the wiping actionthereagainst of the brush roll 21.

Sprocket 24 has the chain '27 which drives the sprocket 28 of the presser roll shaft 29 which is journaled in spring pressed blocks slidably adjustable in guidesof "the frames 5 and 6 and said shaft 2 9;hasthe presser roll 30 of comparatively elastic rubber or other suitable yielding material' adapted durmg the rotation of cylinder 8 to receive and conform to the edge 14 of the form 13. Adjacent this presser'roll 30 is the water spray p1pe 31 A which supplies ngiter' to said roll to prevent the adhesion of the periphery of sa1d roll and the rubber against which said roll resses. P Sprocket 10 has the chain 32 which drives the sprocket 33 ofthe shaft 34. This shaft has the roll 35 journaled in bearings of the frames 5 and 6 and driving the endless belt I 3 6 which. is sustained also by the companion roll '31 hayingits shaft 38 journaled in bear- F in s of said frames 5 and 6. The purpose of ,tlnsgbelt 36 is to strip ;or guide any scrap rubber from the periphery ofthe cylinder 8 to a point where said scrap may fall or pass the peripheries of the cylinder 8 and the.

presser roll 30, cylinder 8 is now rotated and motion is transmitted to the various rolls 20, 25 and 30 by means of the driving gear and chains above described. Heat is supplied-to the roll 25 by the combustion of gas from the gas pipe 26; When, in the rotation of cylinder 8, one of the forms 13 is brought to a convenient position an operative places and smooths in said form one of the linings A which lining preferably is not thick enough to fill said form 13 to the full depth of the edge or lip 14. The continued rotation of cylinder 8 carries such form 13 with its lining 8 beneath or in contact with the rubher Web B and beneath the elastic roll 30 by which pressure is applied to press the web B in intimate contact with the lining A so that these parts may adhere. By reason of the elastic nature of the roll 30 the edge 14 of the form 13 is received in the material of said roll and theirubber Web B is stretched oversaid edge 14 and is pressed against and I usually adheres to the periphery of cylinder 8 outside the edge or lip 14, so that the rubber stretched and thus diminished in thickness over/the edge or lip 14 is in particularly good condition to be severed by pressureapplied thereto especially when such pressure is combined with the application of heat.

As the cylinder 8 continues to rotate the form 13 with the stretched web of rubber B is brought beneath the roll 25 which roll havin a periphery of comparatively rigid material rides against the rubber stretched over the edge 14 of said form 13, the heat of said roll 25 softens or, in some cases, burns the rubber with which it contacts and said combined heat and pressure effects the severing of the rubber web along the line of the edge or lip 14, the final severing of the rubber being somewhat assisted by the retraction of the stretched rubber. After the form 13 passes beyond the roll 25 the piece of reinforced material can be removed from said form. When the first end of the web is carried around by the cylinder 8 to a point adjacent the belt 36 it is stripped from the cylinder and led to the funnel 39 as scrap B,

and thereafter the action of belt 36 isto continue the stripping of said scrap from the cylinder.

The purpose of removably securing the forms 13, 13 to the cylinder 8 is that several sizes of these forms are used in producing reinforced tops for boots and that, for some purposes, it may be desirable to substitute forms 13 of different shape from those on the cylinder.

This improved. machine can be operated by a single operator without waste of material and the product may be manufactured at much less cost than as heretofore,

1n the embodiment of my invention. shown in the drawings the application of the rubber web to the lining or reinforce material, the stretching of the rubber along the line on which it is proposed to sever the same and the subjection of such stretched line of rubber to pressure is carried out as e progressive operation and such a machine is usually to be preferred but, by such 'disclosure, Iclo not intend thereby to limit my invention to a machine in which the various steps described are carried; out as s continuons progressive operation.

t is also apparent" the; the temperature of the roll 25 may be more less depending upon the pressure of SZLu roll and on the nature and thickness of the rubber web. For some kinds of rubber it is spoerent that roll 25 need not be heated.

While I have herein pointed out advantages of my improved machine when used to apply linings or reinforces A to rubber it is of course evident that the omission of seid'linings or reinforces from the forms 13 will not necessarily depart essentially from my invention ".a'EYthe reisecl eeige or pettern 14 of said form. may be utilized for cutting out portions of the web B without reference to the application to such portions of reinforcements of any kind. When usecl.

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'uml a second as a rubber severing (le /ice the pattern of the edge 1-1 may be such that any shape may be cut from the rubber and the remainder of said rubber B would, in such event, not

be considered as 'Wustebut could be used in the'niunufecture of boots, shoes or other articles.

Having thus describccl my invention 1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

l. A rubber working machine comprising a form curriei'l thereby and. having u raised edge to receive within it a backing, means cooperating with said form to press a sheet of rubber into tidhesive contact with a backing in said forn'i', and pressure means cooperating with said. raised pattern to" eli'ect the severing of saicl rubber.

2. A rubber working HlillillilQ comprising a rotary Currier, a form on said carrier lniving a depression ndeptcri to receive a fabric a roller positioned to press it sheet of rubher into firm adhesive contact with a fabric contained in the depression of said form, roller adapted to operate on tne rubber sustained the raised portions of said form to effect the severing of said rubber along the outline of such raised. portions.

EDW ARD B, Witnesses Hem? MILLER, Esrz rsn. ltinrtrrrr. 

